The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

The Li family opened a restaurant in the town. In a small town with only a few hundred people, opening a restaurant would definitely result in huge losses.

Everyone thought so at first, but when the restaurant actually opened, Li's cooking skills slapped those people in the face.

"It's delicious! I didn't realize there are so many of them in our town now!"

The full diners left with a burp, and the vacant seat became the next person's turn.

The food is delicious and not expensive. The price of the food Li sells is very standard. He adds a few copper coins for labor to the price of the ingredients, and no one can find fault with it.

"Li, you can sell it at a higher price, otherwise there will be too many people in the restaurant and I won't be able to get a seat!"

After a busy day, Theresa hurried to the restaurant, but it was packed and there was no place to sit. Theresa sat on the stone outside the restaurant and waited for a full hour before it was her turn to go in and order.

“…Teresa, you don’t have to come here every day. I have posted simple recipes. You can make them in the camp.”

The reason why Li opened such a popular restaurant and never got into trouble with his peers was that he made several of his recipes public.

The few dishes that were made public were enough for the surrounding taverns to use. After Li's new store opened, the business of the surrounding shops did not deteriorate, so everyone simply accepted it happily.

"Ah~ Now I think you did it on purpose. Not only does my own cooking not taste as good as yours, but preparing those foods separately is more expensive than eating in the restaurant. Now I understand what you mean by economies of scale."

After hanging out with Li for a few days, Theresa had long forgotten her previous dislike for Li, and now she wished she could stay in the store every day.

"You haven't told me how this mayonnaise is made."

Teresa poked the bread with her fork and looked up to ask about Lee's trade secrets.

Li touched his nose and told Theresa bluntly.

"Egg yolks and salt, whisk vigorously."

"Bah! I tried making it several times and it doesn't taste like this at all!"

Theresa gestured with the fork in her hand and almost poked Lee in the face.

While dodging, Lee put the seared lamb chops that Theresa ordered on the table.

The big lamb chop, which weighed about half a pound after being fried, was eaten by Theresa in just two or three bites.

"One more!"

Li looked at Theresa's silly look with sauce on the corner of her mouth and laughed from the bottom of his heart.

Turning back to the kitchen, Li threw a new piece of lamb chop onto the iron plate to heat it up while processing other customers' orders.

Xiaoli, who was helping Li in the kitchen, came over with a sinister look.

"Master, Teresa is such a big eater. Why don't you consider someone else? If you really marry her, our family will go bankrupt!"

Xiaoli's worries seemed to be reasonable. She recalled Teresa's appetite in the dream world, and then looked at Teresa who was guzzling appetizer tea at the table.

"…Don't worry, I can still support you, young master."

Li patted Xiaoli's head to stop her from thinking too much.

Xiaoli pouted helplessly. As a maid, it was already very rude to mention such things to the young master. Xiaoli couldn't continue to show a bad face to the young master.

Xiaoli, who was sulking, had no choice but to attack the ingredients in the kitchen. She stuffed some washed vegetable leaves into her mouth and chewed them fiercely, as if she was biting Theresa.

“What a bunch of foodies.”

The villages and towns, which had long lacked gourmet food, had their taste buds stimulated by Li's new restaurant. Everyone, young and old, in good health, went to the restaurant.

Then, problems soon arose.

A week later, Theresa came to Li's store as usual to eat delicious food.

In order to collect enough copper coins for ordering food, the refugee camp was completed faster than expected.

Many men with good skills went out into the wild to catch fish and hunt, and the women and children who stayed behind tried their best to make handicrafts to sell.

Theresa's father and uncles gathered the young and strong men in the refugee camp, organized a team of traveling merchants, and vowed to promote the circulation of supplies.

With the identity of a priest, the caravan can save a lot of trouble when traveling to distant places to trade.

"Lee, same as always, three lamb chops!"

"No."

Li sat in the deserted shop. There was no fire in the kitchen and the restaurant was also deserted.

Theresa immediately felt something strange. At this time of day, Li should be very busy.

"Do you have fish fillets?"

"No."

"There must be bread!"

Lee sighed helplessly and looked at Theresa as if she was an idiot.

"We are closed today and there are no customers here."

Theresa suddenly became anxious. Seeing Li sitting there sighing, it seemed that the restaurant had encountered some serious problems.

Does this mean the restaurant is going to close down?

Was he attacked by someone, or was there something wrong with Li’s dishes?

Could it be that Li has accumulated too much mental pressure and has nowhere to release it, so he has no intention of being a chef anymore?

"Li, please cheer up. Our previous agreement still counts. As long as you can continue to run the restaurant, I am willing to do anything for you! Goddess, my sacrifice is valuable. Holy Light protects me. All this is for all living beings..."

I don’t know what Theresa was thinking about, but she suddenly prayed to the sunlight at the door, and holy light emanated from her body.

Li's face twitched. He thought Theresa here was different from the one in the dream world, but in essence, there seemed to be no difference between them.

"Theresa, stop praying! It's not a serious problem. It's just that we are out of materials."

“…No materials?”

There seemed to be a question mark on Theresa's head, and she had no idea what Li was talking about.

"Ahem~ I've been working non-stop these past few days, and the cuckoo eggs and sheep around here have been almost all destroyed. If I continue to work at the same intensity as before, the poultry and livestock around here will become extinct."

"Ah? Is it that amazing?"

Theresa, a glutton who eats a pound of mutton and two eggs in one meal, has no self-awareness at all.

"Well, according to the original calculation, the food stored in the town will be enough to survive for a year, but according to the amount of food served by Caiyun Catering, we will be hungry when winter comes this year."

Only then did Theresa realize that while Caiyun Catering was a restaurant, it also had to consume local rice to maintain itself.

"Well, you can do less..."

"Unless we strictly control the rations and return to the previous life of only two slices of bread a day..."

Before Li could finish his words, Theresa felt as if her tail was stepped on.

If someone had dared to mention the issue of wasting food in front of Theresa before, she would have thrown a ball of holy light at them without saying a word.

But after eating all kinds of delicious food, asking Theresa to chew on dry bread would be tantamount to killing her!

"I'm not an ascetic monk. I also have appetites, okay?"

"So, if you want to always have good food to eat, you must have enough ingredients. It's no use telling me that you don't have food. A good cook cannot cook without rice~"

Li shrugged and returned the question that Theresa had thrown to him at the beginning to Theresa.

Theresa was not angry, she just lowered her head and thought about what she could do.